Vietnamese Fish Sauce: Two-Ingredient Wonder
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4.3 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This complexly savory liquid seasoning is often made with only two ingredients: fish and sea salt. Anney and Lauren get lost in the history and science of nước mắm -- Vietnamese fish sauce.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:13.5 | Hello and welcome to Sabre projection of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm Annie Reese. |
| 0:16.4 | And I'm Lauren Vogelbaum. |
| 0:17.8 | And today we have an episode for you about Vietnamese fish sauce. |
| 0:22.5 | Yes. Was there any particular reason this was on your mind, Lauren? |
| 0:26.7 | Uh, nope. I don't think so. Or maybe. Okay, so I might have, I might have mentioned this in another |
| 0:33.2 | episode, but I had a couple friends in town and went out to like a late night Atlanta |
| 0:39.6 | Vietnamese spot with them. And, uh, and we walked in. And this, this, this just lovely, |
| 0:48.0 | savory, slightly sweet smell of the ocean hit me immediately upon entering. And I was like, oh, this is going to be a |
| 0:57.4 | good meal. And I've been thinking about fish sauce ever since. I do not blame you. As I was telling |
| 1:06.9 | you before we started recording, I love Vietnamese food. |
| 1:16.9 | And this fish sauce ends up in a lot of it. |
| 1:17.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:21.7 | And so the cravings are all over this. |
| 1:24.6 | It's just all kinds of things. |
| 1:25.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.8 | Yeah, one of the things that we had that night was, um, |
| 1:35.0 | uh, little rice paper rolls that you roll up, um, at the table, uh, you know, they give you like a little dunking station for your, for your rice paper sheets and then you just, you know, |
| 1:38.9 | pull together. They give you like a platter of grilled meats and herbs and stuff and, and, |
| 1:43.5 | and, and just a and you just make your own and um |
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